Video: The Grinch Stole And Replaced Christmas With A Cruel Humiliating Joke
So I've got a slightly sadistic sense of humor. Okay a VERY sadistic sense of humor. That being said, I didn't laugh at this video. I did cover my mouth at one point in time and kinda gasp at the horror, but no laughter.
Spoiler alert, if you want to be surprised, don't read this, but it at least makes you feel a little better after watching it, at least for the little boy in the video.
My mom decides to buy my brother an Xbox 360 for christmas. We leave that night and return the next morning to find he has sneaked a look....just as my mom thought he would, this is the result...and yes he did get the game i will try to post the second video
I came from a family where cruel and unusual Christmas pranks were the norm... I think I still have scars from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle pizza shooter and bull whip combo. But they never actually made me that upset. As the spoiler points out, the kid did get the system, they were just really evil in waiting so long to give it to him. I hope. Lets just hope they are not putting that in the description to avoid a public backlash.
Asterick
Posted to on 3 March 2008
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haha i thought it was funny. The the kid should be happy he gets anything for x-mas at all. They're gifts not required items to get.
the thing i don't get is, if this had been this kid's brother who did this, filmed it, and put it up on youtube, all the same people who are saying how horrible this is would have been instead saying things like "LAWLZ" and "PWNED!!1!"
why the double standard?
FATALITY
I think I would have laughed at this if it were not for the complete lack of a punchline in the video.
The fact that they were so creative with the joke is pretty darn funny, but there is a point where you have to quit dashing his hopes and just give him the toy.
As far as him not being grateful, it's a classic bait and switch, it's not so much that you DON'T get something, it's that you see it, it's handed to you, and then taken away. xD
Well that kid is gonna grow up to kill all his parents and family. >_> Its how Jason was made.
Wow I mean... the kid shouldn't have gone sneaking a peak to see what he got for Christmas, but still... thats a bit much.
The worst thing I did was buy my little brother "Shadow The Hedgehog" on GameCube like he wanted and bury it at the bottom of a box of coal. He freaked out at first then found the game.
I don't know which was worse, the coal or that game.
The expression says it all. That's obviously a poor family who cannot afford luxury gifts every christmas, so I don't get where the lesson was...
I loved it, 'cause I knew they had to have gotten the system. I mean where do you find empty (novelty) Xbox boxes. I guess, if you knew someone who bought one and you asked for the empty box. That would be cold-hearted.
Also, I loved my TMNT pizza shooter, well for about a week.
I heard from the guys over at Engadget.com that the kid never did get a 360. And also Microsoft is trying to get the kid's/family's address, supposedly.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/worst-parents-in-the-world-punk-kid-into-thinking-he-got-an-xbox/
Sorry if that stretches the screen. ^^;
According to Engadget, the kid does NOT have an XBox 360, so your gut that they are "putting that in the description to avoid a public backlash" is dead on.
Now I don't know where this information they got came from, but he supposedly peeked at his Christmas gift stash a while earlier, so he'd have been expecting opening an XBox 360 for some time now.
That just made me feel sick inside. If it was a cruel joke upon that child, it was a sociopathic one, and if it was a 'lesson', then it also... was sociopathic. That was just horrible. Just wrong at a deep and soul-crushing level.
As a gamer I feel his pain. Growing up and being dependent on Birthday and Christmas for new games was hard. Things will get better when he can buy his own stuff.
A little cruel, perhaps, but I'd be terrified if I raised a child who cried over material posessions...
Oh Steven, please, get over yourself pal. All kids love toys and they'll cry when they get them taken away, and there's nothing wrong with it.
I'd be terrified if someone like you raised a child.
there is nothing sociopathic about this. This is a pretty standard Christmas prank.
OK, I'm all for jokes, even on Christmas. But, my mom did things like hiding NES games inside of clothes and hiding things outside the house so we think we didn't get them and then we'd go to take the trash out and find them. My mom never made me cry and then posted it on the internet for millions of people to see. That is NOT a funny Xmas joke.
i laughed, i thought it was funny at first but it just dragged on wayyyy to long, and then i felt like a total douchebag when he started to cry. But i do think that the kid got the 360 eventually, I know families like this, hell my family looks like this. The family wouldn't have gone through the trouble if they didn't have the Xbox, so i bet anything that he got it eventually.
I actually thought it was hilarious. We were going to do the same thing for my niece this year. My mother had ordered her a Wii, but it wasn't scheduled to come until after Christmas (well after, mid January.)
Evilly, we planned to give her my old Wii box instead, filled with nothing (Not even clothes.)
However, the tides were turned when we all expected her to open up an empty box... but she actually had a Wii inside.
It turns out, the Wii had shipped early, and my mother pulled a fast one over on everyone else.